Edit – bah, videos removed. If anyone’s found another source please say so below.
Edit2 – A new source for one of the vids is now in this post, but presumably it won’t hang around for long.

This half hour of purported footage from Far Cry 3 expandalone Blood Dragon is obviously fake. You can tell by the way the shader polarity is reversed at 11m07s in the first video, and the vertex flux lacks external consistency at 03m40s in the second video. Don’t even et me started on how unconvincing the e-dough modulation is. If you’re naive enough to want to watch thirty minutes of fabricated video from a pastiche sci-fi shooter, I can only wave you at the supposedly leaked videos below. They might have gone by the time you get there, as Ubisoft will doubtlessly feel the blatantly counterfeit muzzle occlusion diodes will give the real version of their game a bad rep.

I guess I’m kind of looking forward to playing this, despite the latter half of Far Cry 3 making me put on my grumpy pants, given it’s so patently ridiculous. I’m not looking forward to reading interviews with the writer, however.

Seems like they think creating fan interest and generating momentum prior to the release of said product is a bad idea – which seems really counter-intuitive to me. Shouldn’t their marketing departments be doing this type of thing, instead of suppressing it? Corporate understandings of business pre-internet perhaps?

Weapons and hands taking half of the screen, slow walking speed, slow jump recovery, experience points, reloading, sprinting, ironsight, fighting few enemies at a time in cramped level design… So, just your average modern FPS with a slightly different paint job.

They like fun. Because, you know, Iron Sights, Experience Points etc. ARE fun.

APart from that I got a strong impression of them actually mocking modern game design, and especially modern FPS-design.

Also, what’s wrong about sprinting? Sprinting was actually quite amazing in FC3, because you could do it indefinitely. And I’d rather have 2 (or 3) different movement speeds than one, especially if sneaking is an option.

Also, even while making fun of tutorial messages, the game still puts the player through several tutotial missions and the hud constantly spouts tutorial messages at the player. The constant FC3 “go here” status messages still pop up.